How booming elephant numbers are reshaping SA’s savanna trees

 

(Posted 22nd August 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

 

The Herald (South Africa), August 20, 2025
Elephants are reshaping SA’s savanna trees, a new Nelson Mandela University study has found — with some species now stunted to less than 2m high, far shorter than their natural growth. The long-term research, published on August 11 in the journal Biotropica, tracked more than 3,500 trees over nearly two decades in the 75,000ha Madikwe Game Reserve in North West
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